[Live-devel] RTSP Client application development - how netwrok error will be notified?

Ross Finlayson finlayson at live555.com
Wed Mar 10 18:53:40 PST 2010


>Regarding Live555 library usage for developing an RTSP client application,
>In case network is down while receiving the video packets from RTSP 
>server, how this library will be notifying the client application 
>i.e. which method will be called in this case?

Because the stream is datagram-based, there's no inherent way to 
detect that the 'network is down' (or, equivalently, that the server 
has died).

However, the best way to detect this is simply to periodically check 
that data keeps arriving.
-- 

Ross Finlayson
Live Networks, Inc.
http://www.live555.com/
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